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First night in Jeju
ByJohn MayI left Shanghai this morning at about 10, meeting Paulo at the airport and spent a really pleasant couple of hours talking to him about a whole range of different issues. The flight to Jeju took a little over an hour and we were met off the plane by a reception committee of local Scouts….
A gentle bit of trumpet blowing… (!)
ByJohn Mayhttp://www.scouts.org.uk/news/archive/2008/april/240408.html
Birthday greetings
ByJohn MayToday is the UK Career Academy Foundation’s fifth birthday. The day started with a presentation to business representatives at Newham College with Stephen Timms MP (with a brilliant roleplay perfromed by Career Academy students) and ended with a piece of birthday cake at our staff meeting in Canary Wharf. And yesterday was our youngest member…
Turning a life around
ByJohn MayAs Secretary General of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation I’ve been very fortunate to have met hundreds of young award participants around the world and many of their stories are quite remarkable. It’s impossible to share all of their experiences within this blog but ‘Agnes’ is a great example of the kind of…
Career Academies make the news…
ByJohn MayA terrific article about the Career Academy movement in today’s Sunday Times. My comments about the personal hygiene and argumentative nature of teenagers lend real credibility to the education debate! The article can be viewed on line at: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/support_services/article1719273.ece
On the campaign trail
ByJohn MayToday, colleagues at the Scout Association, through a series of letters and emails sent around the globe, announced that I am to be their candidate for election to the World Scout Committee. The election is to be held in July, in South Korea. World Scouting has been living through a number of challenges in the…